posted Jul 5th, 2018 - Previous Indoor Cloud League updates have mentioned the extremely tight competition on the 12+ leaderboard between the two teams of the Northern California Skydiving League, iFLY Sacramento and iFLY SF Bay.

The ICL 2018 season began for both teams with a 1-point thriller to the advantage of iFLY SF Bay (102 - 101) in January. The recent and ongoing battle heated up again in April when iFLY Sacramento won by two points (111 - 109) and the NSL News picked up the topic on May 4th.

The May competition turned out to be even tighter, as both teams finished with the same total (110 - 110) for the month, and the most recent scores for June simply continue the same battle, this time with the next 1-point advantage for iFLY SF Bay.

The two NCSL indoor teams have now been separated by one single point for the total of the past three months (324 - 323) while iFLY Sacramento is hanging on to the lead for the current total (652 - 613) at half-time of the 2018 season.

Indoor Cloud League 2018			Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
Flying Chamber: 12+ Feet
1	iFLY Sacramento	US	101	117	110	111	110	103	-	-	-	-	-	-	652
2	iFLY SF Bay	US	102	101	87	109	110	104	-	-	-	-	-	-	613
3	iFLY Orlando	US	88	100	111	111	85	94	-	-	-	-	-	-	589
4	Harpia	BR	14	-	-	15	11	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	51

iFLY Sacramento's team did not have the complete DeLoreans lineup available to take on the AAA and AA sequences and battle for iFLY Sacramento with Cali4nia Raptors, due to an injury of team member Jason Russell. The Raptors tied iFLY Orlando's AAA Class highscore and won the internal NCSL competition in this category by seven points.

iFLY Orlando actually won the Open Class combination (AAA/AA) on the 12+ leaderboard for the month of June with two different lineups.

iFLY Sacramento's Rookie Class lineup (RR - R) compensated for the loss in the AAA Class and maxed out the scoring options with 25-pointers in both categories. Michael Beaudreau, Mika Miettinen, Anthony Biasotti and player-coach Julius Frank lost only one point for iFLY SF Bay in the RR Class (24 - 25) while there was a larger difference for the R Class sequence.

NCSL Director Lori Connor said that 4-way Rookie McKenzie Brown, who posted the two 30-pointers with the two player-coaches, is iFLY Sacramento's first exclusive indoor 4-way competitor. Her sister Lauren Brown has also attended Indoor Cloud League events in Texas. McKenzie Brown and Reed Lawson are both not eligible any longer for two of the three Rookie Class sequences (R - RR).

iFLY Sacramento - June	AAA	AA	A	RRR	RR	R	Total
Teams	G,14,L,17	L,14,18	F,G,7	G,L,D	M,F,G	M,L	Total
Matt Stephens, Lori Connor, James Cain, Abbie Crews	10(-1)	-	-	-	-	-	10
John Verley, Lisa Larkin, Ron Ashcraft, Calli Waltrip	-	10	20	-	-	-	30
Monty Stephens, Nick Armstrong, Russ Hebert, James Cain	-	-	-	13	-	-	13
Karel Davis, Antar Carlos Gutierrez, Keith Clayton, Abbie Crews	-	-	-	7(-1)	15	-	-
McKenzie Brown, Reed Lawson, Lori Connor, Matt Stephens	-	-	-	-	30	30	50
iFLY Sacramento's Best of June	10	10	20	13	25	25	103

The May competition of the Indoor Cloud League had featured the comeback of an experienced 4-way competitor at iFLY SF Bay.

Eric Gin was a member of the second Team Fastrax generation. He was recruited for the 2004 lineup when coach Niklas Hemlin took the player-coach position after working with the team at the very beginnings in the AA Class. Fastrax moved up into the AAA Class in 2004, with Billy Andrews, Eric Gin, John Hart and Niklas Hemlin in the lineup.

He trained and competed for two years with the fully sponsored team and was done after the 19.7 average and a 5th place with Fastrax at the FAI World Cup 2005.

He continued for a few years in different lineups before his name disappeared from 4-way competition. The May leaderboard of the Indoor Cloud League brought his name back in a Rookie Class lineup, as he started easy with his comeback.

Now he was back in two different June lineups, and one of them took on the AAA Class sequence for iFLY SF Bay. Welcome back, Eric...

iFLY SF Bay - June	AAA	AA	A	RRR	RR	R	Total
Teams	G,14,L,17	L,14,18	F,G,7	G,L,D	M,F,G	M,L	Total
Julius Frank, Deanna Frank, Ethan DeLano, Jessica Lee (Cali4nia Raptors)	17	-	-	-	-	-	17
Julius Frank, Deanna Frank, Lori Connor, Eric Gin	13	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sylvain Florand, Lukasz Weber, Vignesh Elamvazhuthi, Mahlon Chute	-	12	21	-	-	-	33
Ray Hebert, Kiran Shivaram, Ron Put, Julius Frank	-	-	-	17	-	-	17
Michael Beaudreau, Mika Miettinen, Anthony Biasotti, Julius Frank	-	-	-	12	24	-	24
Whitney Russell Combs, Andrei Lopatenko, Julius Frank, Eric Gin	-	-	-	-	12	13	13
iFLY SF Bay's Best of June	17	12	21	17	24	13	104